Remote Senior Mobile Engineer - Instrumentation SDK (iOS) UK Remote

Grafana; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global remote culture

Autonomy and support to ship greatWork

Open source roots

Career growth pathways

30 days annual leave

Job summary

Grafana Labs—a fully remote company—seeks a Senior Mobile Engineer focused on iOS instrumentation SDKs. You will build high-performance SDK features in Swift/Obj-C, ensure smooth integrations, and own end-to-end delivery with strong collaboration across teams.

The role emphasizes performance in startup time and memory, and welcomes experience with cross-platform bindings. This remote role supports global collaboration and a flexible work model.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building or maintaining mobile SDKs for iOS.
• Experience with performance-sensitive code and pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Comfortable working in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve mobile instrumentation SDKs for iOS (Swift / Obj-C).
• Design and ship SDK features like session tracking and crash reporting.
• Own projects end-to-end with incremental delivery and MVPs.
• Ensure quality with automated tests and backwards-compatible upgrades.
• Collaborate across backend/frontend/product/solutions engineering teams.

Skills

Swift

Obj-C

Android

SDK development

Performance optimization

Remote collaboration

Job description

Remote Senior Mobile Engineer - Instrumentation SDK (iOS) UK Remote

Date Posted: 2026-10-03

Location: Leicester, Leicestershire, GB, LE1 5 (Work From Home)

Application Deadline: 2027-01-01T23:01:36.82

About Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do. If this role excites you, we would love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity. This is a remote opportunity and we are interested in applicants based in Spain, Ireland, Germany, the UK, or Sweden at this time.

Our Mobile Observability Initiative

Grafana Observability builds end-to-end observability that spans application, infrastructure, database, browser, and mobile. Our Mobile Observability initiative gives mobile developers first-class instrumentation SDKs that capture traces, metrics, logs, crashes, and user sessions. We re building high-performance, low-overhead SDKs that make it easy for teams to connect mobile signals to backend and infra telemetry for true full-stack visibility. We value open standards, great developer experience, and doing the hard engineering needed to ship reliable software at scale.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve mobile instrumentation SDKs for iOS (Swift / Obj-C), prioritizing performance, stability, and a great developer experience.
• Design and ship SDK features such as session tracking, crash reporting, sampling strategies, automatic context propagation, and OpenTelemetry integrations.
• Own projects end-to-end.
• Break large, ambiguous problems into incremental deliverables: design modular solutions, ship MVPs, gather feedback, iterate quickly.
• Ensure quality: automated tests, CI, documentation, and smooth, backwards-compatible upgrade paths.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with backend, frontend, product, and solutions engineering to ensure cohesive end-to-end observability workflows.
• Engage with the open-source community: review PRs, discuss design proposals, and help guide external contributors.
• Mentor teammates, participate in technical design discussions and help shape the mobile observability roadmap.

Requirements

• Strong mobile engineering experience with iOS (Swift/Obj-C) and, optionally, Android (Kotlin/Java).
• Demonstrated experience building or maintaining mobile SDKs, platform libraries, or other developer-facing platform code used by external developers.
• Experience working with performance-sensitive code (startup time, memory, network efficiency) and making pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Comfortable working in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

Bonus Points

• Experience with cross-platform frameworks (React Native, Flutter) or building native bindings/bridges.

Compensation & Rewards

In UK, the compensation range for this role is £91,000 - £114,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes — RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.

Additional Perks:

• Global remote culture — bringing talent from around the world with a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
• Innovation-driven environment with autonomy and support to ship great work and explore new ideas.
• Open source roots built on community-driven values.
• Career growth pathways with defined opportunities for development.
• Supportive team of passionate, caring professionals.
• Balance, including a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum, with 3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days.
• Compliance with local legislation where applicable.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, color, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital or family status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to diversity and inclusion as the foundation of our organization.

Additional Notes

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